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by Hamid Mosalla on Best Practices, Coding Principles, Design Pattern, Programming, Programming Processes, Quality Assurance

C# Coding Conventions: Adapting a Standard to Your Team

When a team decides it needs a coding convention, the usual move is to borrow one from a big company, such as Microsoft’s C# conventions, the Airbnb JavaScript guide or one of Google’s style guides. That’s a sensible starting point. But each of those documents was written for one company’s team size, codebase and tools. … →

 
by Hamid Mosalla on Best Practices, Coding Principles, Design Pattern, Programming, Programming Processes

Programming Principles: DRY, KISS, SOLID, YAGNI and More

I’ve written before about the principle I use most when designing software, doing the simplest thing that could possibly work. This post collects the other programming principles and laws I keep returning to, from DRY and SOLID to Conway’s law and Brooks’s law. None of them can be applied mechanically, and several pull against each … →